Settled Ink

Shawlands, Glasgow Tue–Fri 11:00–19:00 · Sat 10:00–18:00

(Three residents, one piercer, a guest chair)

The artists

Pick by the work you want. Every photo is healed, and each artist’s page shows what they draw from and how they work.

Grape hyacinth tattoo, after Besler, 1613, on the inner forearm, healed 14 months

01

Isla Rennie

Fine-line botanicals

Single-needle lines and stippled shading, drawn from the plates of seventeenth-century herbals.

Tuesday–Friday · Tattooing since 2012, opened Settled Ink in 2016

See Isla’s work
Rhinoceros tattoo, after Dürer, 1515, on the ribs, healed 3 years

02

Tomasz Wrona

Blackwork and engraving

Black only. Tone built out of lines, the way copperplate and wood engravers did it.

Wednesday–Saturday · From Kraków, in Glasgow since 2015, resident since 2018

See Tomasz’s work
Black carp tattoo, after Kuniyoshi, on the forearm, black and grey, healed 2 years

03

Callum Baird

Japanese, black and grey, colour

Carp, waves, peonies and cockerels planned around the body, from a forearm to a full back.

Tuesday, Thursday–Saturday · Resident since 2020, large-scale work

See Callum’s work
A solid gold three-bead cluster piercing end

04

Niamh Docherty

Piercing · Piercing since 2017

Needles only, never guns. Every new piercing gets implant-grade titanium or solid 14k gold, threadless, and I check every one again at six weeks to swap the bar for a shorter one.

Piercing prices

(The guest chair)

3–14 November 2026

Lena Brandt

Ornamental dotwork, from Hamburg. Lena builds ornaments out of dots, from Haeckel’s drawings of radiolarians and from geometry worked out with a compass. These two are from her last guest spot here, in November 2025.

Radiolarian tattoo, after Haeckel, 1904, on the forearm, healed 11 months
Radiolarianafter Haeckel, 1904ForearmHealed 11 monthsLena Brandt
Radiolarian spines tattoo, after Haeckel, 1904, on the calf, healed 11 months
Radiolarian spinesafter Haeckel, 1904CalfHealed 11 monthsLena Brandt
Book with Lena

(Past guests) Sara Lindqvist (Malmö, fine line) · Marco Bellini (Turin, neo-traditional) · Ada Nowak (Gdańsk, dotwork)